Writing

Words from the table.

On nervous systems, kitchens, motherhood, business, and the long practice of choosing yourself.

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Why Your Business Strategy Needs to Start With Your Body

Most business advice assumes a regulated nervous system. It doesn't say that — it just assumes it. Here's what to do when yours isn't, and why that's actually where the real strategy begins.

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The Myth of the Mom Who Has It Together

She doesn't exist. But we keep performing her anyway — at the expense of everything that actually matters. A note on what it looks like to stop.

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Communal Cooking Is Not a Nice Extra. It's a Biological Need.

When we cook together, something happens in our nervous systems that no productivity tool can replicate. Here's the science — and the story — behind why I keep putting women around tables.

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My Nonno Became a Painter at 70. Here's What That Taught Me About Waiting.

He picked up a brush in retirement and never looked back. I watched him. And then I kept deferring. This is the story of what changed — and what a funeral had to do with it.

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Mise en Place Is Not a Productivity Hack. It's a Philosophy.

In a professional kitchen, everything has a place before the heat comes on. Here's how I apply that to life, business, and the mornings that would otherwise swallow me whole.

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